Seeing her wrinkled face in the mirror, she grabbed a Koran and began cutting out strips of paper, plastering them to her face with spit to cover her wrinkles. The strips kept falling off, but she kept licking and putting them back on.
She finally got so frustrated that she cursed Iblis in anger, and Iblis himself appeared. "Don't involve me in this!" he shouted. "This desecration makes you more dangerous than a hundred of the most dangerous devils."
Inspired by: The English prose version of Rumi in More Tales from the Masnavi by A. J. Arberry.
Notes: This is story 179 in the book. For more about Iblis, see Wikipedia.
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